Black options of select box

[p-boiko]

Options of a select box are black: http://screencloud.net/v/5Y5I Debian Linux, Avocode v2.11.1

[jakubzitny]

Hi @p-boiko, thanks for reporting this. We've heard about this problem several times in past few months and we've already fixed it few times but it's quite hard to reproduce it and satisfy all flavors of Linux.

Which GUI are you using? Did you install it with GUI or were you adding it later after the system installation? Is there any chance you're using any special theme in your GUI?

[p-boiko]

Hi @jakubzitny I'm not sure what devs exactly need to know about my GUI setup. Hope this helps: I use Openbox for managing applications' windows. I have also QT4 and 5, GTK2 and 3.22. I do use custom GTK-theme, but just tried Avocode also with standard Adwaita. I use this version of Avocode, but the same issue was found in previous at least two versions.

Though Avocode is build on top of Electron framework, which is using HTML and CSS for GUI, so the select-boxes should not depend on my GTK or other GUI toolkit setup. I guess.

[jakubzitny]

Thanks for the info @p-boiko, that's exactly what we need.

Yes, we use HTML and CSS for GUI, but everything is allright with our styles and it does not happen on other platforms and basic Linux installations. We actually need to install the same or at least a similar platform to investigate this problem.

We hope we'll be able to fix this for the next release of Avocode, we'll keep you updated here 😉

[nkaliev]

Still have this problem on Ubuntu. v.2.12.0 Ubuntu 16.04.1 w/ Unity environment.

[vojtatranta]

@skyline94 sad though...

Our test machine is Ubuntu 12.04 dropdowns are white and text is black there.

Can you please tell me which selectboxes exactly cause this? Some of them are our custom, but most of them are system ones.

[nkaliev]

@vojtatranta seems like every dropdown select(preferences, export dialogs, etc) :( Im new with Avocode, but I didn't found any correct dropdown while using. Anyway, this is not too big problem for me, because while being hidden selects work fine and tool is absolutely nice^^ made my day over and over) hope you can fix this trouble as fast as you can)

[vojtatranta]

@skyline94 wish I could reproduce it.

We are not styling the dropdown anyhow - because of this, we had similar troubles on windows and we decided to drop styling of select boxes once and for all.

I am afraid I cannot do anything about it right now :(

[nkaliev]

@vojtatranta i will try to run Avocode on another Ubuntu machine with Unity and with Cinnamon environment. pls wait for feedback here :)

[vojtatranta]

@skyline94 waiting!

[nkaliev]

@vojtatranta same behavior :(

[connor-bean]

Hey!

We have released the newest version of the Avocode app, version 2.12, which we expect to fix this problem. Please download it at https://avocode.com/download/. I am going to close this ticket but please comment on it if you’re still experiencing this problem in Version 2.12.

Thanks! Connor, Avocode Support

[p-boiko]

No, Connor, the issue is still there in the v2.12. http://screencloud.net/v/nf65

[vojtatranta]

@skyline94 what version of Ubuntu?

[vojtatranta]

This is apparently Electron / Chromium issue: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/4322

Wish I could reproduce it... I thought it may be caused by GPU acceleration but we turned it off in Avocode by default.

I'll update on of our virtual machines and get back to you with the news.

[nkaliev]

@connor-bean no, problem still here. tested on latest version.

[nkaliev]

@vojtatranta 16.04 i tried to run w/ Unity and Cinnamon environment, both shows black boxes.

[nkaliev]

Updated to 2.12.1, issue still here.

[p-boiko]

2.12.2 - no fix

[p-boiko]

the same with 2.12.3

[jakubzitny]

Thanks for the info @p-boiko, I will re-open this issue again. We have not really looked at it for the last two releases.

We have mentioned that we have never been able to reproduce it. So. I am going to install OpenBox on Debian and try to investigate more. You are still using OpenBox, right?

[p-boiko]

Ahoj, @jakubzitny ! Thanks for your attention. Yes, my super-laptop keeps me stuck to the lightweight environments :) So the answer is: yes, Openbox (plus Compton composition manager, AMD APU – might be essential)

[p-boiko]

Oops, hit the wrong button... I didn't mean to close the issue.

[jakubzitny]

Hi @p-boiko, I tried absolutely minimal Debian installation with Openbox and I played around with some themes. I installed Adwaita from here and I was still not able to reproduce the black option background bug.

Here:

If the theme you use is something else, can you please link it so I can try it? Or if you really want to have this solved, and you have time, can you prepare a virtualbox/vagrant/docker or any other image with your setup? Maybe we will be able to find the root of this problem together.

[nkaliev]

@jakubzitny i will try to make clean Ubuntu installation in VirtualBox. in my opinion, problem hides in desktop environments, not in themes. though i will also try to toggle themes.

[jakubzitny]

Thanks @skyline94, that will be highly appreciated.

[nkaliev]

@jakubzitny I made clean Ubuntu installation in Virtual Box and didn't met issue...surprisingly confused. Its really hard to reproduce! Also i found strange thing...sometimes I can see same black boxes in chrome while surfing, for example, when anchors title tooltip fadein... All these things looks like video driver problem and because there are a lot of custom drivers for linux issue reproduces only on specific configurations. Now im gonna try to reinstall some drivers)))

[jakubzitny]

Yeah, that's what I thought originally. Thanks for the effort.

Can you share with us what video driver are you using, please? And how about you, @p-boiko?

[p-boiko]

Fixed for me in v2.14.2 screenshot Can close, if it works for others too PS: didn't anything to driver, though got few weeks ago a regular update. Not sure if the update fixed the issue for me. VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Temash [Radeon HD 8250/8280G] xserver-xorg-video-radeon 7.8.0-1+b1 Linux 4.11.0-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.11-1~exp2 (2017-05-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux

[jakubzitny]

Could be. Thanks a lot for the info @p-boiko. Let's close this and let us know if you encounter it (or anything else) again. 😉

[nkaliev]

Also confirm. its ok now!

[p-boiko]

Oh no! They are back with v2.14.6 ;(

[jakubzitny]

Damn. Allright, so now we know the problem. We have added some gpu flags. However they caused that for some people the app wouldn't render at all. Like half of it or so. Look at issues #1512 and #1490. I think they have higher priority right now as they were not able to use the app at all. We'll look into this to see if we can satisfy both.

[jakubzitny]

Actually @p-boiko, can you please try to launch avocode via one of these commands to see if it helps?

./avocode --ignore-gpu-blacklist
./avocode -- --ignore-gpu-blacklist

[p-boiko]

yes, this works :) updated app's shortcut. Thanks!

[jakubzitny]

Allright, let's close this again and keep this as a workaround. Is it the first one that is working or the second command with extra --?

[p-boiko]

First command. Didn't try the second, cause not sure what empty parameter can do, and the first command works :)

[nkaliev]

2.14.6 no black boxes from 2.14.2